VIDEO: Environmentally Friendly Longliner Northern Leader Hits the Water (USA)

January 29, 2013

J. M. Martinac Shipbuilding Corp. has launched the environmentally friendly longliner, named the Northern Leader. The vessel, designed by Seattle-based Jensen Maritime Consultants and owned by fishing company Alaskan Leader Fisheries LLC, will be homeported in Kodiak, Alaska.

The 184-foot high tech fishing vessel is capable of holding over 1000 tons of Cod. The Northern Leader is operated by 31 persons and can deploy a long line over 45 miles. The vessel will be used to support the longline fisheries of the North Pacific, Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands. Longline fishing is a commercial fishing technique that uses a long line, called the main line, with baited hooks attached at intervals.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbDYocN0hNY

It is powered with five Caterpillar generators supplying two 1000 Kilo Watt Schottle Z drive electric motors. The hold is refrigerated with 3, 150 hp compressors reducing the temperature down as low as -25 degrees F. As one of the most environmentally friendly fishing boats, it will take about 30 days to complete a catch.

The vessel is ABS classed for the Maltese Cross, A1 Fishing Vessel with AMS. Total international tonnage is estimated at 1800 ITC.

This boat will set a new trend in fishing.

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Shipbuilding Tribune Staff, January 29, 2013; Video: Youtube